Nessus now has Windows LAPS Support
Summary: Nessus now has the ability to leverage accounts managed by Microsoft Windows LAPS. How LAPS works: Since LAPS managed accounts have their passwords rotated routinely, users cannot just directly provide the credentials in their Scan Policy. Before this change, users would instead have to make an additional privileged account on each LAPS enabled Host to provide to Nessus. Currently Nessus supports Entra LAPS allowing a scan to pull LAPS Managed Credentials from a customer’s remote Entra instance. Now, Nessus can do the same for Windows LAPS, allowing customers with local LAPS setups to gain the same benefits! Without Windows LAPS support, customers must make dedicated account for Nessus to use to scan targets Change: With this LAPS support change, during the startup phase of a scan, Nessus will reach out to a customer provided Domain Controller hosting an AD forest with LAPS enabled, and pull a list of all Local Admin Accounts for devices managed by LAPS. Nessus will then attempt to use these retrieved LAPS managed accounts as credentials when attempting to access a target host. With Windows LAPS Support, Customers need only provide a single Credential that allows Nessus to retrieve the actual credentials for LAPS Managed Devices How to enable it: To make use of Nessus’ Windows LAPS support, a customer needs only to provide the necessary info to their scan/policy via the Windows LAPS Credential. They’ll need to provide us the IP of the DC, Credentials for an account on that DC with the necessary permissions*, and the DistinguishedName of the OU that contains their LAPS managed devices. *The Account for retrieving Windows LAPS credentials needs the following permissions General Recommend the Account be added to the BUILTIN/Administrators AD Group as it grants all required permissions, including: Access to the $Admin Able to log on to the DC remotely Able to run Powershell WMI and DCOM access to Root/CIMV2 WMI Namespace LAPS Permissions LapsADReadPasswordPermission rights to the LAPS OU Be an Authorized Password Decryptor in the LAPS GPO (without this, Nessus will not be able to retrieve passwords protected by LAPS Encryption). Members of the Domain Administrators group are Authorized Password Decryptors by default. For additional information see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/laps/laps-overview Impact: Customers using Rotating Host passwords managed through Microsoft Windows LAPS can now leverage these credentials in their Nessus scans for more secure scanning configurations. Target Release Date: Nessus, T.VM On/About 09 JUN 2025 T.SC TBDWhere Capability Meets Opportunity: Meet the Tenable Research Special Operations Team
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New Plugin Family: UnionTech Local Security Checks
Summary Tenable will now provide vulnerability check plugins for UnionTech Unity Operating System (UOS). Impact Customers with UnionTech Unity Operating System (ServerA and ServerE) systems in their environments will be able to scan them for vulnerabilities. These plugins will have the family “UnionTech Local Security Checks”. These plugins will not have agent support at this time, but this support is expected in a future release. Target Release Date September 30, 2025CrushFTP Zero-Day Exploited (CVE-2025-54309)
On July 18, CrushFTP warned that a zero-day in its CrushFTP software was being exploited in the wild. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2025-54309 Unprotected Alternate Channel Vulnerability 9.0 According to CrushFTP, the vulnerability was first discovered as being exploited on July 18 at 9AM CST, though they caution that exploitation may have “been going on for longer.” For more information about the vulnerability, including the availability of patches and Tenable product coverage, please visit our blog.June 2025 Product & Research Update Newsletter
The June 2025 Tenable Product & Research Newsletter is live. This month's edition covers updates on: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Identity Exposure, Tenable Patch Management, Tenable Security Center, and Tenable VM, along with updates about the Tenable Ecosystem, Tenable Connect, Training, Professional Services, Research, and more. Community Update Introducing Tenable Connect, your new customer community! Check out your new hub to connect, learn and grow with Tenable. Here’s what you’ll find: Ability to open and manage support cases Easy access to the improved account management portal Dedicated pages for product resources and training Discussion boards and opportunities to engage with your peers and Tenable Log into Tenable Connect before July 1 for a chance to win a limited edition Tenable Connect t-shirt! Tenable Identity Exposure Tenable’s Research-Driven Identity Defense Expands Tenable continues to deepen its coverage of real-world identity risks with a series of new indicators of exposure (IoEs) across both Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID. BadSuccessor—a rare, but forest-level critical, zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in AD, was recently disclosed. Introduced with delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSAs) in Windows Server 2025, its exposure depends on the presence of a 2025 domain controller, but the impact can be severe. An attacker with the right permissions could use a dMSA to inherit domain admin-level access and compromise the entire forest. Tenable has responded quickly with a dedicated IoE: BadSuccessor – Dangerous dMSA Permissions, now available in Tenable Identity Exposure (SaaS) v3.95. This detection flags risky dMSA inheritance paths that could enable exploitation, helping organizations stay ahead even in the absence of a Microsoft patch. Review Tenable’s technical advisory and FAQ for detailed context. More IoEs targeting real-world risk Other new IoEs target misconfigurations and gaps attackers routinely exploit, spanning Tier 0 risks in AD and hygiene issues in Entra ID. Each IoE is designed to be practical, observable and relevant, shaped by real attack behaviors, not just theoretical risks. Check out this product documentation for more information. Active Directory Tenable IoE “Sensitive Exchange Group Members” Who really sits in the most privileged Exchange groups: a Tier‑0 foothold. Tenable IoE “Exchange Permissions” Risky ACLs where Exchange rights bleed into domain control. Entra ID Tenable IoE “Users Allowed to Join Devices” Tenant setting that lets any user enroll a rogue workstation. Tenable IoE “Managed Devices Not Required for Auth” Conditional‑access gap allowing unmanaged logins. Tenable IoE “Auth‑Methods Migration Incomplete” Legacy authentication policy is still exposed. Tenable IoE “Dangerous Application Permissions” Third‑party app scopes that can exfiltrate data. Tenable IoE “Risky Users Without Enforcement” Risk‑based access policy missing for high‑risk accounts. Tenable Cloud Security Reminder: Tenable Cloud Security requires you to log in to view documentation. To access the documentation or try Tenable Cloud Security, contact your account manager or request a demo. Enhanced CVE detection and customizable severity metrics Tenable Cloud Security now enhances CVE detection by integrating Tenable's vulnerability logic, leveraging the Tenable vulnerability data lake (TVDL) and Nessus. This improves accuracy and coverage in detecting new CVEs regardless of National Vulnerability Database (NVD) delays. The integration aligns CVE detection between Tenable Cloud Security and Tenable Vulnerability Management, reducing inconsistencies and boosting reliability within Tenable One. Users can select which CVE severity metric to display first: CVSS (static) or VPR (dynamic, factoring exploit likelihood). The metric chosen as primary impacts finding creation: severity changes can cause related findings to open or close. Just-in-time by resource groups and recurring access Thanks to your feedback, Just-in-Time (JIT) access is now even more powerful and flexible. Azure users can request access at the resource group level, not just by subscription, giving you greater granularity and control across your cloud environments. And for all JIT users, building on existing immediate/scheduled access request support, we’ve added recurring access scheduling — to better support business workflows, such as a contractor needing project access for a specified repeat duration or the need for access to a routine audit that lasts a full quarter. Easily set daily, weekly or monthly schedules with end dates — all through an intuitive UI. Consider using recurring access to replace standing permissions that some JIT users may still have, for more granular time-bound least privilege. Powerful Tenable cloud vulnerability insights within ServiceNow Tenable now integrates with ServiceNow’s new Vulnerability Response platform, enabling you to seamlessly import prioritized, actionable vulnerability data directly into ServiceNow. This streamlined integration, which also supports government environments, helps teams focus on what matters most by aligning Tenable findings with your existing remediation workflows, making it easier to act fast on critical risks. Already using ServiceNow ticketing? You can now sync Tenable findings with ServiceNow incidents, mapping severity and status to priority and state (such as open findings to new incidents). Note: Syncing incident states requires additional permissions and configuration within ServiceNow. Selectively scan data resources by exclusion tags You can now add exclusion tags to fine-tune scans of both managed databases and object storage in Tenable Cloud Security. Exclusion tags enable you to scope out resources starting from the next scanning cycle by specifying tags as configured at the resource level, for tailoring scans to your environment. This new capability helps you decrease costs by reducing unnecessary resource usage. Object storage comes to OCI As part of our growing capabilities around Oracle Cloud, Tenable Cloud Security now offers data analysis of object storage buckets in OCI. Out of the box, the feature is on a par with all other object storage that Tenable Cloud Security supports and is part of routine CSPM onboarding. In other updates, new dynamic scan scoping by tag is also supported for OCI. Tenable Vulnerability Management (TVM) Tenable Data Stream (TDS) now supports the streaming of TVM Host Audit Findings data as well as WAS assets, tags and findings data. TDS already supports TVM host assets, tags and vulnerabilities data streaming to AWS S3 buckets and is used by some of the largest TVM customers. Learn more about TDS here. Besides the new payloads, there are a few more improvements: Additional new fields in TVM findings payload like Resurfaced Data and Time Taken to Fix Grouping of the files written in the AWS S3 buckets is now based on timestamp, resulting in fewer files written, which in turn improves consumption and reduces latency. (Previously, this was based on both scan ID and timestamp, which resulted in writing a large number of small files.) Tenable Patch Management Tenable Patch Management now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) We’re excited to announce that Tenable Patch Management (On-Prem) 9.2.967.20 now supports RHEL 8 and RHEL 9. This release also includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and an important security update to Java 17 JRE. Please note that Patch Notification Bots using WhatsApp require review and modification as they can no longer be combined with other providers. Please visit here for a list of third-party applications covered. Note: We are always adding more. For more information, please read the Tenable Documentation and Release Notes and visit the Downloads Portal for the latest version. Tenable OT Security Upgrade to Tenable OT Security 4.2 to unlock new layers of visibility across your OT/IT environment. Key enhancements in this release include: Advanced SNMP-based asset discovery: Gain deeper OT network topology insight. Our new SNMP Crawler discovers and maps all connected devices and switches, including previously hidden ones, down to the specific switch port. Intelligent hardware lifecycle management: Proactively manage obsolescence with EOL tracking for OT/IoT assets from vendors such as Schneider Electric and Siemens, complementing existing software EOL capabilities. Flexible Windows-based deployment (beta): Install OT Security sensors directly on Windows devices — ideal for segmented subnets or where deploying dedicated physical hardware appliances isn’t feasible. Enhanced IoT & VMS risk insights: With improved IoT connectors and expanded VMS support through enhanced credentialed authentication, extract richer data from IoT devices and VMS (including asset names, models and stream details). Navigation enhancements: A redesigned main menu and intuitive side panel simplify access to critical OT data, speeding workflows and improving usability. Additional improvements: Fewer operational reboots New vulnerability detections Expanded virtualization support for Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM-based platforms Upgraded embedded Tenable applications (Nessus, Nessus Network Monitor) Expanded Device Fingerprint Engine coverage for devices from various vendors To learn more about what’s new in Tenable OT Security, watch the latest customer update or review the release notes. Tenable Security Center Patch 202505.1 is now live This patch addresses high-severity CVEs in SQLite. It applies to SC versions 6.5.1 and 6.4.x and requires manual application. Release notes for 6.5.1 and 6.4x Download: https://www.tenable.com/downloads/security-center Security advisory: https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2025-09 Tenable Ecosystem Tenable Plugin for Jira on-premises v10.4.1 now supports Tenable Web App Scanning We’re excited to launch Tenable Plugin for Jira v10.4.1. This release includes: Support for Tenable Web App Scanning (TWAS) Security update Cleaner logs regarding API responses And bug fixes For more information, please read the Tenable Documentation and visit Atlassian Marketplace to download the newest versions. Tenable App for Splunk v6.1.0 The Tenable App for Splunk v6.1.0 is now available. This release includes: Added support for Tenable Web App Scanning (TWAS) and Tenable OT Security (TOT) New “Assets Dashboard” for visualizing asset details across TVM, TSC, TOT, TWAS, and TASM For more information, please read the Tenable Documentation and visit Splunkbase to download. Tenable Nessus Early Access Release of Nessus 10.9.0 We’re excited to announce the early access of Nessus 10.9.0. For standalone Nessus Expert users, this includes web application scanning functionality for Nessus instances in air-gapped/offline environments. For more information, please see our release documentation. Tenable Training and Product Education Tenable University is excited to announce the refreshed Introduction to Tenable One course. This course covers key features of the Exposure Management platform, including the workspace, Exposure Signals, Attack Path Analysis, Inventory and more, giving you a strong foundation to understand and act on your exposure data. Tenable Professional Services Tenable Professional Services offers two levels of Tenable One Deployment Service, both of which provide a structured, end-to-end approach for implementing and optimizing the Exposure Management platform. With this guidance, your team can gain the visibility, confidence and capabilities needed to actively manage exposure and reduce cyber risk. Tenable Webinars Customer Update Webinars Tune in for product updates, demos, how-to advice and live Q&A to help you get more value from your investment in Tenable solutions. LIVE July 2025 Tenable WAS, July 8, 2025, 11 am ET: Join us for a deep dive into recently released WAS features and capabilities. Tenable Nessus, July 8, 2025, 1 pm ET: Testing for specific CVEs with Nessus. Tenable OT Security, July 9, 2025, 11 am ET: Learn how Tenable OT Security 4.3 unlocks unprecedented visibility and control across your OT/IT environment. Tenable Vulnerability Management, July 9, 2025, 1 pm ET: Credentialed scans versus uncredentialed scans and how to use managed credentials. Tenable One, July 10, 2025, 11 am ET: Learn how Tenable One can now ingest important security context from non-Tenable security tools to help better identify, prioritize and reduce cyber risk. Tenable Security Center, July 10, 2025, 1 pm ET: OS breakdown: reporting exposures by operating system. ON-DEMAND June 2025 Tenable Identity Exposure: Join us to explore new features and capabilities in the latest release of Tenable Identity Exposure. Tenable Nessus: Discovery scan templates and when to use them. Tenable Cloud Security: Just-in-time (JIT) access dramatically reduces exposure from compromised identities. Join us to learn how this capability is enabled with Tenable Cloud Security. Tenable Vulnerability Management: Develop exposure response strategies with Tenable Vulnerability Management. Tenable One: Learn how Exposure Signals and Installed Software leverage data from your security stack to enrich Tenable One findings and strengthen the impact of your exposure management efforts. Tenable Security Center: Learn when and how to use triggered Agent scanning in Security Center. Customer Office Hours These are recurring ask-me-anything sessions for Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Identity Exposure and Tenable OT Security. Time-zone-appropriate sessions are available for the Americas and Europe (including the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific). Learn more and register here. Other Webinars of Interest June 25, 2025: Research Insights from the 2025 Verizon DBIR: What You Need to Know to Secure Smarter June 24, 2025: From Fundamentals to Focus: Enhancing Cloud Security with Tenable - Customer Workshop Series June 17, 2025: Beyond Cyber Chaos: How Public Sector Orgs Secure Smarter with Exposure Management On-demand: Security Without Silos: How to Gain Real Risk Insights with Unified Exposure Management For More Webinars Please visit tenable.com/webinars for the most up-to-date schedule. Tenable Research Research Security Operations Announcement Where Capability Meets Opportunity: Meet the Tenable Research Special Operations Team Rapid Response Microsoft’s May 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 71 CVEs (CVE-2025-32701, CVE-2025-32706, CVE-2025-30400) CVE-2025-32756: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Multiple Fortinet Products Exploited in the Wild CVE-2025-4427, CVE-2025-4428: Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) Remote Code Execution CVE-2025-31324: Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Exploited in the Wild Tenable Research Advisories HPE Insight Remote Support Multiple Vulnerabilities Siemens User Management Component V2.15 Multiple Vulnerabilities Feature Release Highlights New Plugin Family: Tencent Linux Local Security Checks Azure Cloud Infrastructure Scanning for Government Windows LAPS Support in Nessus-based scanners Over 400 New Vulnerability Detections in June!May 2025 Product Update Newsletter
A truncated version of our May product update newsletter follows. To read the full document, which includes updates for Tenable One, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Identity Exposure, Tenable OT Security, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Security Center, Nessus, Patch Management, and more, click here. Tenable One New! Unified Navigation for a Seamless User Experience We are excited to bring you the latest update of Tenable One! This release focuses on maximizing your Exposure Management program by unifying vision, insight, and action across the attack surface. These enhancements include: Streamlined navigation across Tenable One: Easily access key areas like Exposure View, Exposure Signals, Inventory, and Attack Paths from a single location, allowing you to retrieve information faster and more efficiently. New Overview page: Quickly gain high-level insights into the health of critical coverage areas, including exposure scores, assets, attack path matrix, and weakness breakdowns. Enhanced user experience: Enjoy a more intuitive and seamless experience for specific capabilities within Tenable One. New Installed Software page: Easily view software vendors and versions throughout your environment. Pinpoint specific pieces of software, versions, devices, and file paths to enhance discovery and streamline remediation efforts. These changes are now live and ready within your container! To quickly get up to speed, please check out this interactive demo. New! All your security data. All in one place. We’ve introduced powerful new capabilities to elevate your exposure management program. These deliver unified risk visibility, deeper context, and comprehensive reporting across your entire risk landscape. What’s new: Tenable One Connectors: Integrate data from across your security stack into Tenable One to gain complete visibility and context across your attack surface—all within a single platform. Enhancing your Tenable One experience with third-party data gives you: A single, unified inventory of your assets and risk data. Richer context within Exposure Signals to support cross-domain prioritization. Consolidated exposure cards that present a complete view of risk across your environment. Sign up for Connectors See guided demo Explore available connectors Unified Dashboards Easily analyze, track, and share key risk insights across your environment, enabling smarter, more efficient security operations. Unified dashboards include: Pre-built dashboards – Get immediate, actionable insights with best-practice dashboards for common security use cases. Custom dashboards – Use over 40+ widgets to create dashboards tailored to any audience or need. Custom widgets – Develop bespoke widgets that highlight the metrics and data points that matter most to you. Share and collaborate - Make dashboards private or team-accessible, and export them in multiple formats for seamless collaboration. See guided demo Tenable Identity Exposure You Don’t Need More Data — You Need Insights Now available: Identity Insights has launched in the SaaS version of Tenable Identity Exposure — delivering centralized visibility into risks across your identity fabric (Active Directory and Entra ID). This powerful new visualization acts as a command center for security teams to quickly prioritize and address the most critical identity threats. What’s included: Top Risk & Exposure Signals widgets: These widgets surface the most severe indicators of exposure (IOEs) and aggregated risk scenarios using prebuilt insights and custom queries via ExposureAI. Historical risk trends: Track recurring risks over time, identify resurfaced threats, and demonstrate security improvements. Identity demographics: Visualize risk across privileged, service or dormant accounts to better prioritize protection efforts. Fast-action remediation: Use the "If You Only Have 5 Minutes" widget to jump into the most urgent findings. Exportable reports: Generate professional-grade reports with one click to support audits and stakeholder communications. With Insights, security teams move from fragmented data to an actionable overview — saving time, reducing risk, and improving security posture. Check out the Tenable Identity Exposure user guide for more information. Tenable Cloud Security Reminder: You must be logged in to view Tenable Cloud Security documentation. If you need a login or wish to try Tenable Cloud Security, contact your account manager or request a demo. Just-in-Time (JIT) access is now available for all Tenable Cloud Security users. Tenable customers can use their existing (or future) Tenable Cloud Security license to enable and use JIT – with no separate procurement needed! JIT is automatically included with all existing licenses: Enterprise, Standard and CIEM. JIT eliminates standing permissions and reduces cloud risk with on-demand, time-bound access to cloud accounts and identity provider (IdP) groups. See the demo and explore use cases to understand how JIT works and streamlines approvals including by integrating with collaboration platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams. Unified search and in-product documentation—directly in the Console. Tenable Cloud Security now offers context-aware guidance in the Console, making it easier to find what you need. Queries in the search bar return results across all resources, policies, pages, documentation, and vulnerabilities. In-product documentation is now also accessible directly in the Console through unified search and contextual help links, providing context-aware guidance where you need it. See the documentation for more details. Define projects by resource tags and Azure resource groups. Building on the Projects feature announced in the March 2025 newsletter, Tenable Cloud Security now enables you to scope projects using resource tags (across all Tenable-supported cloud providers) and Azure resource group name patterns. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and granularity in organizing projects based on how your cloud environments are structured: by team, business function, or application boundary. The evolving Projects capability supports stronger cloud security maturity by reducing fragmented visibility and siloed inventories, with dedicated views of resources and security findings, and project-specific dashboards for each team. See the documentation for more details. Enhanced CVSS scoring support with CVSS v4 priority. When multiple CVSS versions are available for a vulnerability, CVSS v4 is prioritized to ensure the severity assessment is the most current and precise. It offers improved accuracy, flexibility, and contextual awareness, enabling better prioritization and automation than CVSS v3. Enhanced 3rd-party support for Microsoft Entra ID apps. Tenable now offers greater IAM visibility for Azure users through enhanced Microsoft Entra ID third-party application mapping, with support for more than 350 applications. From the third-party widget in the IAM Dashboard, you can select a vendor per cloud component and navigate directly to the Identity Intelligence page, filtered by that vendor. You can also now view vendor details for each application in the Microsoft Entra ID Application Inventory page, making it easier to manage third-party applications across your environment. >> To read the rest of the May newsletter, click here.
